Criminal Conduct - Lamson Dugan & Murray LLP

The Long Arm of the Law: Investigating Crop Insurance Fraud

The long arms of the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) recently caught a Nebraska man for making false statements in the collection of a sizeable crop insurance claim. The end result was a sentence of 16 weekends of jail time, a $100 special assessment, a $30,000 fine and the kicker of $1,000,000 in restitution. The sentence was for a 2015 crop insurance claim with the investigation starting after the man [...]

Maryland Contractor Documents its Illegal Deal and Pays $2.15 Million to Settle Fraud Claims

Craig Martin2018-04-23T23:55:12-05:00January 7th, 2015|Construction Contractor Advisor, Criminal Conduct, Government Contracting|

Why would a contractor create a contract for illegal work? I really don't know. Late last year, the FBI announced that a Maryland contractor, Forrester Construction Company, agreed to pay $2.15 million dollars to resolve a criminal investigation into alleged fraud in connection with the use of disadvantaged business enterprises involving more than $145 million of District of Columbia government contracts. Under this scheme, Forrester entered into joint venture agreements [...]